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Originally posted by OrganicAnagram33
reply to post by here4awhile
You would hope so, but we've been on the 'harmonization' train for years now, you can trace its beginnings to NAFTA. After that there was the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which generated a lot of opposition an protest, so they stopped talking about it so much, but it's still happening slowly and covertly, bit by bit. I'd like to think there would be a popular uprising, but they're doing it incrementally and people are too apathetic for the most part to be engaged or informed. Canadians just voted (61.4% of them), and that's about as much politics as most of them will think about. ...sigh...
Originally posted by jude11
Originally posted by Buddha1098
The NAU is all about getting our fair share of the resources in the Arctic.
We already have our fair share so I don't understand this point. In fact, our share is so fair that the US wants it.
Of course we'll be worse off and we won't get our fair share of our own resources.
Originally posted by OrganicAnagram33
reply to post by here4awhile
You would hope so, but we've been on the 'harmonization' train for years now, you can trace its beginnings to NAFTA. After that there was the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which generated a lot of opposition an protest, ..
Much of this anti"NAU" hysteria is just plain ol anti-Americanism, something Canadians are programmed to engage in. Of course, as others in this thread admit, it's the US military they will come running to when those resources are threatened.
Originally posted by jude11
Anti-Americanism? Really? That old song? How about just Pro-Canadian? Or can't we love our Nation as much as Americans love theirs?
Tell you what, why doesn't the US just adopt the Canadian Flag when the NAU comes into play? That seems to be fair to me. Then see how many Americans turn Anti-Canadian instead of just Anti-Everyone-Else.
And running to the US for protection of our resources? Is this what the US is doing all over the World? Protecting other Nations that would otherwise steal that Nation's resources like oil? How generous and Un-Selfish Washington is. Always thinking of others. lol
If you actually think it's a good thing, I can only believe that you don't understand the implications of what is really happening and are just choosing this thread for a typical Anti-Anything-But-America post. Read the thread and you will see that there are Americans not wanting this either.
Then again, they speak from actual knowledge of the subject.
Originally posted by blackrussian63
reply to post by incrediblelousminds
Well I for one can say being from the States and have immigrated to Canada the negatives would grossly out-way the positives. #1 would be health care, for any faults that are in the Canadian Health Care System at least there is one!! #2 Education - My 2 sons attended High School in NY, which has one of the higher educational standards in the States.
Canada’s prudent bank regulation prevented a Wall Street style collapse of your economy. Please recognize your peoples’ right to know now about what is going on in these deliberations over “deep integration.” Sincerely yours, Ralph Nader Washington, DC